*Each Monday I will post FIVE Words and FIVE Mantras/Affirmations to use as a starting point for your pages...These will also be in our FILES SECTION on our Mind.Body.Soul Facebook Group page so you will have them all together once the course ends.

*We will also have TWO shapes of the week...(i.e. starts, triangles, etc) to inspire your pages.

*If everything goes as planned I will have video's sprinkled throughout our four weeks showing you how I go from a blank to finished page.

*I HIGHLY encourage YOU to share your pages with us in our GROUP. If you are not a member of our group yet be sure and go here and send me a request!

Ok....I think that's all the information out of the way!! Now let's BEGIN!

This was my VERY FIRST Art journal page...

When I see this I cringe. I mean it's NOTHING like I would do today.

But that's the beauty of keeping a journal...to see our growth. Not only in our art but in ourselves.

This is in that same journal...look at the FEAR I had!!

Again this looks so kid-like to me...

but it's been interesting going back.

This was my first journal...

a book I found on clearance at Barnes and Noble I think.

Not really an art journal but rather a blank notebook. Back then I wasn't into using gesso, paints, scraping tools, modeling paste, etc so my pages could take it! HA!

If you are new to keeping a journal you may be wondering...

"What the heck kind of journal do I use anyway?? What size, what kind of pages?"

There are hundreds more products now then there was six years. But really all you need are a few basic things to begin.

I really like the spiral bound journals like these, too. The best part they are CHEAP and you can find them at Wal-Mart and other Big Box stores for around ten bucks. Be sure and get the ones that say MIXED MEDIA so your pages can withstand lots of layers!!

We will be talking layers later in the week!

If you really don't want to spend a ton of money on your journals...

it is possible to use a plain old, one dollar composition book.

That's what this one is and honestly it's one of my all-time favorite journals!

The best way to use a notebook is to cover each page in gesso to create a sturdy page for paint, glue and anything else you want to add to your page. We will talking gesso this week!

3 comments:

What a beautiful post Leslie and yeah many of my first pages looked like that too like what what I thinking haha but that's how we learn is the try and practice and play ❤❤❤ so happy to have met you and be a part of his class ❤❤❤

I love everything about this, including you sharing your words written to express your own personal feelings about getting started in art Journaling. I'm so glad to see (and have heard) that we'll also have so many talented women sharing with us as well. This will be exciting and scary for me all at once. Thank you for the opportunity to learn from you ALL. ❤

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